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Identity; Memory; Representation; Front desk; Teaching.
This research discusses the formation of literary identity in indigenous and non-indigenous works of Mato Grosso expression as well as the reception of such narratives. The corpus is made up of A fábula do Quase Frito, by Ivens Scaff (1997), Irakisu: o menino criador, by Renê Kithãulu (2002) and Tikare: alma-de-gato, by Alexandre Rolim (2017) in which we observe the relationships between memory and identity. In this sense, internal and external aspects of the proposed works are analyzed, highlighting the possible marks that make up literary identity, that is, the convergent/divergent aspects and voices regarding historical and cultural memory in the selected works. We also discuss, in this work, the (re)construction/(re)signification of individual and collective memories experienced, boosting the identity representations present in the speeches of the narrators and characters of the works. To this end, a bibliographical research was carried out in which textual elements linked to individual and collective identity, otherness, stereotype and identity denial are discussed based on propositions, among others. Our theoretical scope relies on Antonio Candido's (1972) considerations about the importance and necessity of literature for human beings. Among the many authors who talk about identity, we draw on authors such as Heidegger (2005, 2018), Zigmunt Bauman (2005) and Stuart Hall (2003) about the concepts relating to the construction of individual and collective identity, Angela Prysthon (2003 ) and Silviano Santiago (2019) on decoloniality and destabilization of Eurocentrism in literature, Mikhail Bakhtin (2014), Salvatore D'Onófrio (2007) Umberto Eco (1994, 2015) and Massaud Moisés (2012) on the way in which materialities are constituted. We also made use of field research at the State School Dona Rosa Frigger Piovezan – Comodoro/MT, in the year 2022, regarding the reception of the works by the youth public and “if” and/or “how” these readings broaden the horizon of expectations of the reader, whether they meet the need for fiction and fantasy proposed by Antonio Candido (1972), in addition to observing whether/how reading and reception of materialities enable or influence the young reader's literary literacy, that is, whether the reader-student abstracts the work as a parameter for their own literary productions.